Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY -- The world needs lawmakers who are capable, inspired by love and dedicated to serving the most vulnerable, Pope Francis told Catholic...

VATICAN CITY  -- Pope Francis dedicated his general audience talk to the urgent need for young and old to come together so older people...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis' September visit to Kazakhstan will mostly focus on a gathering of religious leaders from around the world, but it...

VATICAN CITY  -- Pope Francis thanked those who are dedicated to promoting life and defending conscientious objection. And he also prayed that the Catholic Church...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said he is convinced God is calling his peers -- older Catholics -- to become "artisans of the revolution...

VATICAN CITY -- Meeting new recruits to the Swiss Guard, Pope Francis thanked the young men for their diligent and important work serving the...

VATICAN CITY -- Warning that the Russian Orthodox patriarch should not "turn himself into Putin's altar boy," Pope Francis also said he would like...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis asked his safeguarding commission to provide an annual audit of what the church is doing to protect minors and...

VATICAN CITY — If young people recognize all that they have received with gratitude and older people take the initiative of relaunching hope in...

VATICAN CITY -- Three years after multiple bombings killed more than 260 people on Easter and lingering questions remain about those behind the attacks,...